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Naider

  • Soil conservation and climate change

    Climate change cannot be mitigated without paying due attention to conserving biodiversity and soil, according to a report by the UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Land degradation, on the one hand, jeopardizes the growth of trees and plants that absorb CO2, and can also release carbon previously stored in the…

  • Cities of the Future: Resilience and Sustainability

    Last week the Prado museum hosted the cycle of reflections on culture of Radio 3 under the name Culture 19. The second day was dedicated to architecture, with the participation of Martha Thorne, executive director of the Pritzker Prize; the doctor architect and sociologist José María Ezquiaga, the expert in Communication of Architecture and Urbanism…

  • Five Growth Indicators better than GDP

    Alternative indicators social and environmental issues for the modern economy

  • Les Ateliers: Local and circular development

    Taking advantage of the Easter holidays, we have been able to learn about an interesting case of a circular, local sustainable and supportive economy. The local consumption and entrepreneurship project Les Ateliers (The workshops) is presented as an attractive case that should undoubtedly be replicated in other (our ) geographies. Les Ateliers, in addition to…

  • Japan bets on hydrogen

    In Europe, there is a commitment to electric cars for the necessary decarbonization of transport, something that will become increasingly evident in the coming years, with regulations that restrict fossil fuel cars. However, Japan is committed to another alternative for the future of road transport, hydrogen. The main idea is that refueling hydrogen cars is…

  • Vancouver: ZEB City

    When talking about climate change, the focus is increasingly on cities, but not so much on buildings, which are the main physical elements that structure the city. But the truth is that the construction industry and buildings themselves generate up to 30% of emissions of global greenhouse gases. They are also the cause of up…

  • Benefits of urban trees

    With the world’s urban population growing rapidly — it is estimated that 68% of people will live in urban areas in 2050 —, the presence of trees in cities is key for natural climate control, mitigation of global warming, and improvement of health and the quality of life of citizenship.

  • Preparation of the euskadi ecological footprint 2019

    Naider will carry out the calculation of the Euskadi Ecological Footprint 2019, after winning the public tender Presented by the Public Environmental Management Society of the Basque Government, Ihobe, S.A. The objective is based on analyzing the evolution of the ecological footprint of the Basque Country and comparing it with that of other similar regions…

  • Singapore’s digital twin

    The concept of digital twin is booming. These are virtual simulations of systems that exist physically, in order to experience all kinds of scenarios, see what works and what doesn’t, anticipate problems, and be able to prepare accordingly. It is often linked to the creation of virtual twins of manufacturing plants, in order to simulate…

  • Adapting our system to new environmental challenges

    The market generally fails when it comes to taking into account the costs of the environmental impacts of our economy, as well as the value (not only economic) of nature and the services that it provides us . An old familiar dilemma – although key to understanding the unsustainability of our system – is based…